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“The court relied on the evidence recorded by the girl and the owner of the house in Nathachiwadi where she and the accused were living as a couple. The accused was taken into custody and sent to jail. Dhiwar gave the girl an artificial mangalsutra (chain) and toe rings to show that they were married and they started residing as husband and wife in a rented house.The girl’s family had, in the meanwhile, lodged a missing person complaint with the police after she did not return home. PUNE: Special judge S H Gwalani on Thursday sentenced a 20-year-old man to 10-year rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a minor girl after luring her with a marriage promise in January last year.The girl (name withheld) was aged 14 years and resided near the house of accused Ganesh Subhash Dhiwar under the jurisdiction of the Chandannagar police station.On January 3, 2017, the accused lured her with a marriage promise, following which they left their respective homes for Dhiwar’s native place at Nathachiwadi in Daund taluka . It also relied on the fact that the girl’s age was 14 years at the time of the incident and found the deposition by the medical experts who examined her and the medical evidence as reliable for convicting the accused,” Ghogare-Patil said.The court sentenced Dhiwar to 10 years in jail under the IPC provision and said no separate sentence was required under the POCSO Act as per Section 42 of the Act..